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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Ribble Valley Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Ribble Valley website
22,421 approved · 3,926 refused · 1,941 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Nov 1992 to 5 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Alliker Ings Salthill Road Clitheroe Lancashire BB7 1PE
Received 8 Mar 20178 Castlegate Clitheroe BB7 1BB
Received 27 Feb 2017Land at Higher Standen Farm and Part Littlemoor Farm Clitheroe
Received 27 Feb 201790 WHALLEY ROAD, READ, BURNLEY
Received 26 Nov 2001Houghton Farm Cottage Osbaldeston Lane Osbaldeston BB2 7LY
Received 3 Mar 2017Abbots Court 41 Station Road Whalley BB7 9RH
Received 3 Mar 201741 Whalley Road Read BB12 7PB
Received 28 Feb 201733 Limefield Avenue Whalley Lancashire BB7 9RJ
Received 3 Mar 2017The Shippon Dewhurst Farm Longsight Road Langho BB6 8AD
Received 6 Mar 2017Spex Opticians 22 24 King Street Clitheroe BB7 2EP
Received 6 Mar 201717 Nethergill Bolton by Bowland BB7 4MW
Received 9 Mar 2017Land to the rear of Bay Horse Inn Osbaldestone Lane BB2 7HX
Received 23 Feb 2017Land off Davis Street Longridge PR3 3NL
Received 3 Mar 201711-13 Gisburn Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NP
Received 7 Mar 2017COCKSHOTTS FARM COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE, SIMONSTONE, BURNLEY
Received 27 Nov 200111-13 Gisburn Road Bolton by Bowland BB7 4NP
Received 7 Mar 2017Southport House Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE
Received 3 Mar 2017Southport House Sawley Road Sawley BB7 4LE
Received 3 Mar 2017Stonyhurst College Avenue Road Hurst Green BB7 9PZ
Received 3 Mar 2017Dower House Barn 41 Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AD
Received 3 Mar 2017Abbots Court 41 Station Road Whalley BB7 9RH
Received 3 Mar 2017Stanley House Lowergate Clitheroe BB7 1AD
Received 6 Mar 2017Old Croft Church Street Ribchester Preston Lancashire PR3 3YE
Received 14 Mar 2017The Whins Whins Lane Read Burnley BB12 7QY
Received 7 Mar 2017Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Ribble Valley Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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